Multicultural professional psychologists routinely assert that psychotherapeutic interventions require culturally competent delivery for ethnoracial minority clients to protect the distinctive cultural orientations of these clients. Dominant disciplinary conceptualizations of cultural competence are ‘‘kind of person’’ models that emphasize specialized awareness, knowledge, and skills on the par...

The article is aimed at defining the concept of integrated learning and features implementation this educational technology in modern general education institutions. In key concept, mechanisms integration between basic disciplines, which are appropriate for use school, considered. It noted that can be carried out by two mechanisms, each perception pupils surrounding world as a whole, regardless...

The current study examined the structural composition of the communication networks of Korean immigrants’ ethnic church community, which became the main sources of their social capital. The study measured the effect of their network characteristics (i.e., size, diversity, and centrality) on individuals’ monocultural and intercultural orientations. A total of seven hypotheses, drawn from Smith’s...

In the social worlds of assisted conception and stem cell science, uncertainties proliferate and particular framings of the future may be highly strategic. In this article we explore meanings and articulations of the future using data from our study of ethical and social issues implicated by the donation of embryos to human embryonic stem cell research in three linked assisted conception units ...

introduction: in the past 2 decades, research findings established achievement goal theory as a powerful framework for conceptualizing difference in the quality of student’s engagement, persistence on task, and academic resilience. so the present study examined the relationship between achievement goal orientations and academic resilience. method: participants were 606 students (307 girls and 2...

Research on education in new immigrant destinations has highlighted the importance of educators’ professional missions and expertise shaping their receptivity toward newcomers. Less attention been given to how social identities, especially relation newcomers, influence they perceive role serving population. Drawing theory representative bureaucracy, this qualitative study explores identities sh...

Estimation of local orientations in multivariate signals (including optical flow estimation as special case of orientation in spacetime-volumes) is an important problem in image processing and computer vision. Modelling a signal using only a single orientation is often too restrictive, since occlusions and transparency happen frequently, thus necessitating the modelling and analysis of multiple...

Background and Purpose: Childbirth is a normal physiological process and a family event. Women in various societies with different cultural backgrounds have diverse reasons for childbearing. Understanding the reasons behind childbearing might help overcome some issues associated with early/late reproduction, or lack of desire to give birth. This study was an attempt to develop, validate, and st...

this study aimed to identify the portions of teaching materials for english classes in iran’s high schools. the efficiency of these materials was evaluated by (a) eliciting the teachers’ perception of the materials to identify their distribution portions and (b) studying the teachers’ satisfaction to identify whether the materials were successful to develop the efl teachers’ knowledge and skill...

This paper revisits two teacher-education contexts which we independently researched. Both invested in teacher-professional transformation, presenting unique puzzles our respective data analyses. Bringing together Bakhtinian dialogic theory and Natural Inclusionality (Rayner, 2017), return to these a reflective dialogue. The unpacks emergent themes. first theme details sense-making of the dialo...